All Quotes

'Crouching Tiger,' of course, was a very dramatic role for me, and the fighting was very serious.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
‐‐ Amanda Palmer

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.
‐‐ Ryan Tedder

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.
‐‐ Robbie Coltrane

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'
‐‐ Martin Rees

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.
‐‐ Rick Perry

Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.
‐‐ David Blunkett

'Crucible' was going to be a 'passing of the torch' story. So something that was big enough to be worthy of that, that could show these characters being changed - along with their respective outlooks about life, the galaxy, and the Force - was Mortis.
‐‐ Troy Denning

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
‐‐ Che Guevara

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
‐‐ Morris Raphael Cohen

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
‐‐ Robinson Jeffers

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
‐‐ Harriet Ann Jacobs

Cruelty is not a literary value.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
‐‐ Rue McClanahan

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
‐‐ Thomas Hardy

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
‐‐ George Eliot

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.
‐‐ Juliet Stevenson

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.
‐‐ Elihu Root

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
‐‐ Paul Tillich

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.
‐‐ Mac Miller

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.
‐‐ Terry Zwigoff

'Crumbling' Down' is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything, and the walls were crumbling down on the poor.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

Crumpets I make myself. I love crumpets. You can't beat a good home-made crumpet.
‐‐ Paul Hollywood

Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

Crunches only go so deep.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.
‐‐ John Singleton

Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.
‐‐ Sukarno

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.
‐‐ Lucas Till

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
‐‐ Alan Paton

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick

Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.
‐‐ Adele

Crying over what's gone won't find the present.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

Crying wolf is a real danger.
‐‐ David Attenborough

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
‐‐ Julian Assange

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.
‐‐ Douglas Leone

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
‐‐ Paul J. Meyer

Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
‐‐ Dan Shechtman

Crystals amplify the consciousness.
‐‐ Shirley MacLaine

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

'CSI' has not only remained a top-rated show through seven seasons; it has had real-world consequences. Police and prosecutors complain of a 'CSI' effect' that leads juries to demand more physical evidence than they used to expect. College officials use the same term to describe spiking enrollment in forensic-science programs.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

'CSI''s been a great blessing for me. It's been a platform that's allowed me to go around the country and the world, really, and speak on issues of disability, but I've never - I'm a professional actor, so I studied for years; I do theater. I never want to disrespect what got me here.
‐‐ Robert David Hall

CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky